$400 OFF Online Courses

For a limited time, you can complete high-quality, hands-on SANS Institute training online for $400 Off! Just register for a qualifying SANS OnDemand or vLive training course.

SIFT Workstation

Free VMware Appliance

An international team of forensics experts, led by SANS Faculty Fellow Rob Lee, created the SANS Investigative Forensic Toolkit (SIFT) Workstation and made it available to the whole community as a public service. The SIFT Workstation is a VMware appliance, pre-configured with the necessary tools to perform detailed digital forensic examination in a variety of settings.

SANS Lethal Forensicator Coin

The Lethal Forensicator Coin is designed to be awarded to those who demonstrate exceptional talent, contributions, or helps to lead in the digital forensics profession and community.

SANS DFIR Courses Available Online

Two of SANS' most popular DFIR courses have recently been added to our OnDemand library:

Every organization will eventually deal with cyber-crime. Fraud, intrusion, insider threats, phishing and other cyber-crimes are now a fact of life. If you are an IT or law enforcement professional and don't know how to look for and sort out these cases, your skills are becoming less valuable every day. Read More

The SANS Computer Forensics and e-Discovery Community offers digital forensics professionals an opportunity to learn, dicuss, and share current developments in the field. It also provides information regarding forensics training, certification, and events. Read More

Unpatched, unprotected computers connected to the Internet are compromised in less than 3 days. The Computer Forensics, Investigation and Response course from SANS will teach you techniques and tools for sucessful forensics investigations in a hands-on and practical way; for both Windows and Linux. Read More

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"SANS Computer Forensics Graduate Thwarts Bank Heist" - Headlines similar to these are now a reality as former students have emailed me regularly about how they were able to use their forensic skills in very real situations. Read More